Yeah. I mean, your eyes do adapt. It's not like they'll get scorched just by walking around the city at night or anything... If that were the case, then I'd be totally blind by now.
[The memories Siffrin saw from her all happened to take place during the day, but she did spend plenty of time wandering both Shinjuku and Shibuya at night. She didn't require sleep as a Reaper, after all, and the Game's missions generally concluded before the sun set.]
And the sky's still dark at night. It's just... too much light to see stars. Except maybe a few of the brightest ones, if you're lucky.
[Shoka snorts, not really offended at all—then quiets, thinking, once she sees the look on their face.]
Eh... Yeah, maybe a little. I loved being in Shibuya, obvi. It's home. So I guess I just never thought about the things it was missing much... [She tips her disguise-head back again.] But getting to see the stars here... I dunno. It's one hell of a view.
[She's getting used to always seeing it, slowly but surely. As much as she misses Shibuya, if she were to lose this view...
She abruptly changes the subject.]
... I just remembered something. You said someone called you a star person once, didn't you? They didn't just mean you're into astronomy, did they?
[When did they say that... they absolutely do not remember!! They can't think of a situation where they'd want to bring it up, but maybe if they were upset and it slipped out...??]
[It's not a big deal, they tell themself. Especially since being a Shinx doesn't bother them anymore, so...! This shouldn't either. Really.]
No, it... when I was being Loop, the Universe made me look different...? So I had a star for my head, or around my head, and another one in my chest...
[...]
I wasn't really looking in mirrors, so you'd have to ask stardust for a description! [You know. He of stuck-in-a-coma-in-the-clinic fame.] Or Odile, I guess.
[Though if Shoka's visited Siffrin's hut in the Canopy anytime recently, she might have seen something that suddenly has more context to it: a little partially-finished wooden carving of a star-headed person, tucked carefully into the mound of leaves that used to be stardust's bed. (Next to a similarly incomplete Shinx carving.) Something he was working on, before he stopped waking up...?]
Not gonna lie, Shinx is pretty cute... So cute it kinda pisses me off.
[She can't help being a little jealous of those who received naturally bird and cat-shaped forms. Then there's the comically huge ears, the big eyes, the little tassel on their tail... which, come to think of it, is very star-shaped, isn't it?
She decides to keep that last observation to herself.]
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[The memories Siffrin saw from her all happened to take place during the day, but she did spend plenty of time wandering both Shinjuku and Shibuya at night. She didn't require sleep as a Reaper, after all, and the Game's missions generally concluded before the sun set.]
And the sky's still dark at night. It's just... too much light to see stars. Except maybe a few of the brightest ones, if you're lucky.
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That's... kind of sad?
[...]
I guess people in my world didn't usually pay attention even when they could see them, though...
[So really, do they have any room to talk.]
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[Shoka snorts, not really offended at all—then quiets, thinking, once she sees the look on their face.]
Eh... Yeah, maybe a little. I loved being in Shibuya, obvi. It's home. So I guess I just never thought about the things it was missing much... [She tips her disguise-head back again.] But getting to see the stars here... I dunno. It's one hell of a view.
[She's getting used to always seeing it, slowly but surely. As much as she misses Shibuya, if she were to lose this view...
She abruptly changes the subject.]
... I just remembered something. You said someone called you a star person once, didn't you? They didn't just mean you're into astronomy, did they?
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[When did they say that... they absolutely do not remember!! They can't think of a situation where they'd want to bring it up, but maybe if they were upset and it slipped out...??]
[It's not a big deal, they tell themself. Especially since being a Shinx doesn't bother them anymore, so...! This shouldn't either. Really.]
No, it... when I was being Loop, the Universe made me look different...? So I had a star for my head, or around my head, and another one in my chest...
[...]
I wasn't really looking in mirrors, so you'd have to ask stardust for a description! [You know. He of stuck-in-a-coma-in-the-clinic fame.] Or Odile, I guess.
[Though if Shoka's visited Siffrin's hut in the Canopy anytime recently, she might have seen something that suddenly has more context to it: a little partially-finished wooden carving of a star-headed person, tucked carefully into the mound of leaves that used to be stardust's bed. (Next to a similarly incomplete Shinx carving.) Something he was working on, before he stopped waking up...?]
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[She doesn't know what she was expecting.]
So you were... literally a star person. [...] I thought that lil' wooden figure you've got was, like, symbolic or something?
[Or just a character from one of their plays! But she never did ask about it, sensing from the figure's placement that it might be a sensitive topic.]
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[Their voice is back to being all nonchalant about it.]
Don't ask me how any of that worked when stars are really huge balls of fire. It just did!
[Something something Wish Craft! It didn't really stay burning hot when it stuck around in their chest, either...]
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[She laughs a little, because it's ridiculous, but it sounds a bit hollow—uncertain if she should be laughing about it at all.]
Anyway, sounds like a look.
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[They have to make it funny, because otherwise what is there?]
[They wave their paw.] I'd rather be a Shinx, though. Much cuter!
[The only disadvantage remains: grand total of zero thumbs.......]
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[She can't help being a little jealous of those who received naturally bird and cat-shaped forms. Then there's the comically huge ears, the big eyes, the little tassel on their tail... which, come to think of it, is very star-shaped, isn't it?
She decides to keep that last observation to herself.]
... I used to have wings.